Buzz 42

Spam Attack

Author: buzz42, 07/04

This blog network has been up and down like mad. The reason for this is that some reprobate spammers have been trying to hijack the comments for spammy adverts. This is not what the blogs are for so we have turned off the comments and will not activate them again until we are sure that this attack is over.

Thank you for your understanding. We will keep you updated.

Spam - Closure and other things

Author: buzz42, 04/04

I have noticed that these blogs here have come to a full stop. They have also been spammed. To combat this I have frozen the blog commenting and will close some of the blogs to enable efforts to be focused on those that remain.

I appoloize for the offensive comments - they will be removed soon.

New Service - Reviews to Order.

Author: buzz42, 06/06

You can now command the attention of our review team to get your site reviewed. Our team will take the time to look carefully at your site and will include links to pages you specify using link text you provide (or we can come up wth our own if you wish).

The review will be clearly marked as sponsered.

Our reviewer will spend up to an hour for ever US$18.50 you care to spend. This includes writting time and research time.

If they run over time they will stop research and write the review.

We focus on style and content of the site with reference to ease of use and how nice it looks while the message or personality are of a lesser importance they are still fairly important.

Click Here To Find Out More

Source of today's articles.

Author: buzz42, 18/04

One or Two (Lord Matt) of our editors have been working on The GL Article Site Project and so in honour of the research all articles published today in any buzz will come from acmearticles.com which currently appears to be on track to pass all tests.

It is a relativly heavily advertised site but the content is all there which is more than can be said for many on the list.

However I am told that the titles are-all-written-like-this which is annoying everyone. So don't expect too many more articles from that source to end up here.

News: Press Releases

Author: buzz42, 18/03

We now accept press releases (PR). To qualify an editor must find your release at least mildly interesting. Try to tell us in as few words as possible why your news is the best thing ever and then expand on it.

Editorial policy for this buzz a minimum word count of 475 words with a maximum of 1200. Links including any in the author bio or contact information should be limited to at most three. Word count does not include any author bio, contact info or other related info you wish to append at the end.

Notes: Press releases are profession products and as such we have a different standard for reviewing them. They must add something that the readership of Buzz42 might find interesting. Too many irrelevant messages and the total readership goes down and that is bad for us all.

Try to limit buzz words in your press release and try to talk about things in general and layman's terms.

A short glossary at the end of the item is good for you as the article gets more of the right keywords and good for readers as it teaches something.

More informal news such as new baby, new blog or other "my news" also publishes in the same buzz. If your press release is more specialized then it may be moved to a different buzz. You can help us by pre selecting a different buzz if you feel that this might be the case.

For more help on this topic try this article on ehow.com or publicityinsider.com.

CLICK HERE TO SUBMIT YOUR PRESS RELEASE

Why Brit Bloggers can do better than PayPerPost

Author: buzz42, 02/02

The average PayPerPost (PPP) prize is just $6 which at the current exchange rate (after fees) is less than £3. Given that it takes about an hour to create a decent PPP post and that another must be written before your second post of the day and then another so that you are ready to post tommorrow you will have worked four hours or more for arround £5.

With basic minimum wage you could expect at least £20 in your pocket for that time cost.

This ammounts to slave labour.

You are writting copy for about £1 an hour when most newspapers pay a lot more than that and even your local fast food chain offers a better deal.

You will never get rish jumping for such pathetic scraps.

About the author: Matt is a small business owner and blogger. His company focuses on Internet communication and website technology.

Site Status

Author: Lord Matt, 21/01

I regret to announce that this site has been pummled by a spammer with his spam bot set to kill.

The result is that the system has taken a little damage.

I am sure we should be back to normal in the enxt few days.

Untill them comments may or may not work at all.

Sorry.

UPDATE: Final count 20,000+ spams.

Site Failure

Author: buzz42, 17/01

Right in the middle of what should have been a seamless server move we exopirenced a huge error. For obout 8 minutes it seemed all the content and comments had evaperated.

I am pleased to report this was not the case.

What happened was some spam (which is not normally is not an issue) found an interesting way to break one of Lord Matt's plugins.

We've fixed the issue but in the process broke something else. It all boiled down to missing a single line out of the changes. That is also now fixed and so we are back to normal.

Appologies to people trying to read things during that time.

ECHELON - They read your email and you can proove it.

Author: buzz42, 31/12

Luke (website) submitted:

The USA's National Security Agency (NSA) has a global spy system, codename ECHELON. 

ECHELON captures and analyses virtually every phone call, fax, email and telex message sent anywhere in the world.

"ECHELON is controlled by the NSA and is operated in conjunction with the Government Communications Head Quarters (GCHQ) of England, the Communications Security Establishment (CSE) of Canada, the Australian Defense Security Directorate (DSD), and the General Communications Security Bureau (GCSB) of New Zealand. These organizations are bound together under a secret 1948 agreement, UKUSA, whose terms and text remain under wraps even today." 
http://fly.hiwaay.net/~pspoole/echelon.html 

ECHELON uses

• Voice recognition
• Optical character recognition
• Text analysis

ECHELON is fairly simple:

"...position intercept stations all over the world to capture all satellite, microwave, cellular and fiber-optic communications traffic, and then process this information through the massive computer capabilities of the NSA, including advanced voice recognition and optical character recognition (OCR) programs, and look for code words or phrases (known as the ECHELON “Dictionary”) that will prompt the computers to flag the message for recording and transcribing for future analysis. Intelligence analysts at each of the respective “listening stations” maintain separate keyword lists for them to analyze any conversation or document flagged by the system, which is then forwarded to the respective intelligence agency headquarters that requested the intercept." 
http://fly.hiwaay.net/~pspoole/echelon.html 

If only this information was limited to this kind of use you would be OK but it is not. It is widely believed that the US and the UK use ECHELON to monitor all minority political groups, those profiled as likely to be a danger and a cross section of people (mostly within the US) that carry out actions that conform to patterns that are considered the soul domain of terrorists.

"An international surveillance network established by the National Security Agency and British intelligence services has come under scrutiny in recent weeks, as lawmakers in the United States question whether the network, known as Echelon, could be used to monitor American citizens. ...a former CIA analyst, is part of a growing contingent in the United States, Europe and Australia alarmed by the existence of Echelon, a computer system that monitors millions of e-mail, fax, telex and phone messages sent over satellite-based communications systems as well as terrestrial-based data communications. The system was established under what is known as the "UKUSA Agreement" after World War II and includes the security agencies of the United States, Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand." 
http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/05/cyber/articles/27network.html 

The regularity of such internal spying is roughly comparable to Google producing regular irrelevant results on every page. Is is rumoured that the recent US legal demands against the search giant may be to allow ECHELON more powerful analytics.

"...ECHELON is also being used for purposes well outside its original mission. The regular discovery of domestic surveillance targeted at American civilians for reasons of “unpopular” political affiliation or for no probable cause at all in violation of the First, Fourth and Fifth Amendments of the Constitution – are consistently impeded by very elaborate and complex legal arguments and privilege claims by the intelligence agencies and the US government." 
http://fly.hiwaay.net/~pspoole/echelon.html 

Stations exist in some or all of the following locations: 

• Agios Nikolaos (Cyprus - UK) 
• Bremerhaven (Germany - UK) 
• RAF Chicksands (Bedfordshire, UK) 
• RAF Digby (Lincolnshire, UK) 
• Feltwell (Norfolk, UK) 
• Gibraltar (UK)
• Malta (Malta - UK)
• Masset (British Columbia, Canada)
• Mount Olympus, Troodos range, Cyprus (UK)
• Menwith Hill (Yorkshire, UK)
• Morwenstow (Cornwall, UK)

Please note many news sources for this story have "gone 404" from leading websites.

I can only surmise that posting this information will result in take down notices from the US. 

Please copy this post and put it on your blog.

Working Links:

• DEVELOPMENT OF SURVEILLANCE TECHNOLOGY AND RISK OF ABUSE OF ECONOMIC INFORMATION
• The National Security Agency: The Secret Unveiled
• THE NSA'S GLOBAL SPYING NETWORK

Luke maintains a blog where he write about things like ECHELON at security bureau?

Extra fields:Approx Word Count 500?

The secret of advertsing - A Buzz42 Exclusive

Author: buzz42, 25/11

I'd love this article to be some all singing all dancing, this will change your life, secret.

It is not one of those. It is however a good idea.

The main pages of each area of Buzz42 have large unfilled side bars. They could be showing your message with search engine and surfer friendly links on all Buzz's.

All that space! It could be yours for whatever message you wish.

We are vertually giving it away and in pritty large chunks for next to nothing. We think this is the deal of the year and we hope you agree.

For just £2.50 or about $5.00 you can get your link shown not one place but many - all over the site for six entire months at the very least.

That's a constant search engine visible advert for £5 (about $10). It has all the value of a link and all the sales power of an text or html advert.

Now some people might think this is too good to be true. Maybe we should put the price way way up so that only people who have too much money can afford it. I don't want to do that. I want every day bloggers to get a slice of the pie.

So it remains a sweet (and cheap) deal.

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Regards

Matt B
PHP coder and all round code guy at Buzz42.

When Matt is not amost giving away advertising he maintains a personal blog where he writes about whatever crosses his mind. When he gets the chance he is also the managing director of Adullam Limited.